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What works: Equitable nurse-patient assignments using a workload tool
One unit’s experience developing and implementing a process change.
Nurses on a 36-bed medical/surgical telemetry unit in a metropolitan hospital expressed frustration with their nursing workload. Many of them felt that the time needed to...
Three of the biggest challenges nurses face today and one critical solution
Synopsis: Some of the biggest challenges we face as nurses today include:
Rapidly expanding knowledge and changing practices
Growing deficits in nursing staff and educators
Increasing workplace violence and hazards.
While all these challenges are...
ANA enterprise and foundation news: February 2020
We can't do it alone
When the ANA Enterprise launched Healthy Nurse, Healthy NationTM (HNHN) with the goal of transforming the health of the nation by improving the health of the nation’s registered nurses, it...
Leading the way to professional well-being
Report provides a road map for change.
Takeaways:
A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine estimates that between 35% and 54% of U.S. nurses and providers, across all clinical disciplines...
Caring counts
Preventing suicide among nurses.
Deaths by suicide affect people of every profession but are especially relevant for nurses, who frequently take care of others at the risk of their own physical and mental health. In...
Nurses and Emotional Teflon
Nurses work hard, and the nature of their labor exposes them to many emotionally-charged situations, strong feelings, moral and ethical dilemmas, and the slings and arrows of being the very lifeblood of healthcare on...
Take Care of Yourself
How many of you hear the phrase “self-care” and roll your eyes? I know. Because that’s my reaction, too. As if nurses’ endless task lists can accommodate one more thing: to take care of...
Five tips for student nurses entering their first year of a degree
Claire gives 5 tips to help Student Nurses stay on course through their first year, placement and other challenging experiences.
Play video: Claire takes us through her 5 tips for Student Nurses to help them...
The HealthyNurse® Leader
Nursing leaders—including managers, directors, and executives—are dedicated to advancing nursing excellence and inspiring and empowering teams. They must analyze nursing knowledge and practice environments, and strategize to ensure that safe, evidence-based nursing care is...
Nurse suicide: Prevention and grief management
Addressing suicide when it occurs and assessing for risk are key to prevention.
Takeaways
Nurses are at higher risk of suicide than the general population.
Grief after the death of a colleague by suicide can...
Workplace violence prevention legislation passes in U.S. Houseadvisors
The American Nurses Association (ANA) applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1309) in November 2019. This legislation will require...
Mentorship and collegiality
With all the recent conversations about ethics, mentorship has gained more prominence as the way professionals ought to interact with one another—and that includes all levels of the profession, from those with an associate...
2020: The Year of the Nurse lifts off
When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 2020 would be designated The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, enthusiasm rippled throughout the global nursing community. Coinciding with the 200th birth anniversary of...